Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flaying them. To barbed shafts from the side of the arena, Senators usually turn the shield of their dignity or, if they have any, their humor. But when Senator Caraway received in his mail the Herald Tribune's editorials clipped out by a Dr. J. Clarence Sharp of Manhattan who said he thought the Herald Tribune had "great courage," something happened to Senator Caraway. He instantly wrote Dr. Sharp a note of which the following was the main paragraph...
Anne Morgan, sister of John Pierpont Morgan, attending a meeting at the American Woman's Association's Manhattan clubhouse, hung her $3,000 baby lamb coat in the hall, returned to find a shabby fur garment in its place...
Despite the fact that Judge McCormick had lately sat on the U. S. bench in Manhattan, had there issued many a Dry padlock order against Broadway night clubs, Senator Harris cried: "Just what I feared! . . . An encouragement to violations of the law. . . . A partisan against Prohibition unfit to hold office on the commission. . . . Prohibition forces will be greatly disappointed if the President does not remove this...
...borough of The Bronx, New York City, was the scene of a bounteous banquet. Guest of honor was handsome, thickset City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...
...Artichokes in the U. S., grown chiefly in California, are rare vegetables. Mr. Terranova is said to control a sales network virtually amounting to an artichoke monopoly in Manhattan markets...